Radiator



(No Model.)

0. PEDERSON. RADIATOR.

No. 476,894. PatentedJune 14, 1892.

NirnD Sterns OLE PEDERSON, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

RADIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,894, dated J une 14, 1892.

Application filed October 9, 1891. Serial No. 408,212. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLE PnDnRsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiators, as set forth in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a side elevation of my improved radiator, showing it coupled to the heatingpipes from a stove orheater. Fig. 2 isasimilar View showing the radiator attached to a steam-boiler. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line .r of Fig. l. Figs. 4 and 5 are radiators of modiiied form.

My invention relates to means for raising the temperature of apartments by means of the heat from a stove, heater, or boiler; and my invention consists of the constructions and combinations of devices, which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same,I will now describe its construction and indicate the manner in which the same is car` ried out.

In carrying out. my invention I formv the radiator of upper and lower tapered or funnelshaped sections A and B, seated one upon the otherand made of any desired material suitably ornamented to make the radiator attractive. These sections are made wider at their outer ends than at the center,where they join, whereby a narrow passage is formed near the middle of the radiator, which assists in arresting the Ilow of air through the sections long enough to enable the same to be heated before it enters the apartment, as I shall hereinatter fully describe. The lower section B has its lower wide portion raised slightly above the iioor-line of"`the apartment by means of legs or supports a, so as to receive the cool stratum of air near the door, and slightly below the upper surface of said section is formed a surrounding flange b, upon which the upper section A is seated and secured in any appropriate manner. This upper section has its narrowest portion communicating with the like portion ot` the lower section, and surrounding the lower portion of this upper secn tion are communicating tubes or passages G C', into one of which a pipe e from a stove or heater enters and from the other leads a pipe or tube e', which discharges into a` chimney or ilue or may be returned to the heater to complete the circulation. It desired, certain cocks may be interposed in the pipes to regulate the supply of heat to the adiatoix The sections A and B in Figs. l and 2 are elongated; but they may be conical, if' preferred, as shown in Fig. 4, and the pipes or tubes which supply the heat to the radiator may lead from a stove, as shown in Fig. l, or from a steam-boiler, as in Fig. 2, without departing from the spirit of my invention. The radiator may also consist of single upper and lower elongated sections of tapered form or may consist of a series of upper and lower sections suitably joined together. In the lower portion of the lower section is fitted an open-sided tube or trough D, adapted to contain water for moistening the air passing through the radiator and for settling the tine particles of dust which may be carried into the radiator by the air-currents.

The operation of my invention is substantially as follows: The radiator beingin position and coupled to the heater, the heat is turned into the pipes and courses through the tubes or passages in the lower portion of the upper section A, where it joins the lower section. The cool air near the floor enters the open lower end of the section B and has its passage through the sections arrested by the contracted middle portion of theradiatorlong enough to insure its being heated by the heating-tubes at that point, so that when the air escapes from the top of the radiator its temperature has been considerably raised and the air thus heated serves to increase the temperature of the room.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a radiator, upper and lower sections of tapering form in cross-section with their smaller ends communicating, one of said sections having connecting-passages, and means for supplying heat to said passages, substantially as herein described.

2. In a radiator, upper and lower sections seated one on the other and made tapering section, and means for supplying heat thereto, substantially as herein described.

4. In a radiator, upper and lower sections of tapering formin cross-section, having their contracted ends joining circulating-tubes at said junction, pipes for supplyingheat thereto, and a Water-trough in the lower section for moistenin g the air passing through the sections, substantially as herein described.

' OLE PEDERSON.

'Witnesses W. H. MILLER, F. A. TRnAeY. 

